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DeLisha Milton-Jones

Delisha Milton-Jones
DeLisha Milton-Jones-2007-All-Star-July-15-2007.jpg
DeLisha Milton-Jones at the 2007
WNBA All-Star game.
Free agent
Position Forward
Personal information
Born (1974-09-11) September 11, 1974 (age 42)
Riceboro, Georgia
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight 185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school Bradwell Institute (Hinesville, Georgia)
College Florida (1993–1997)
NBA draft 1999 / Round: Supplemental / Pick: 4th overall
Selected by the Los Angeles Sparks
Playing career 1999–present
Career history
1999–2004 Los Angeles Sparks
2005–2007 Washington Mystics
2008–2012 Los Angeles Sparks
2013 San Antonio Silver Stars
2013–2014 New York Liberty
2014–2015 Atlanta Dream
Career highlights and awards
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

DeLisha Lachell Milton-Jones (born September 11, 1974), née DeLisha Lachell Milton, is an American professional basketball player who is a free agent. Milton-Jones played college basketball for the University of Florida. In her sixteen-season WNBA career, she has played for the Washington Mystics, the Los Angeles Sparks (twice), the San Antonio Stars, and the New York Liberty. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a two-time WNBA champion, and has been selected to the WNBA All-Star Game three times. As of the 2014 season, she is the oldest active player in the WNBA.

Milton-Jones was born in Riceboro, Georgia in 1974. According to a DNA analysis, she descended, mainly, from Yoruba people and Hausa people of Nigeria. She attended Bradwell Institute in Hinesville, Georgia, where she played high school basketball for the Bradwell Tigers. Milton-Jones graduated from Bradwell in 1993.

Milton-Jones accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Carol Ross's Florida Gators women's basketball team from 1993 to 1997. She was a four-year letterman, and led the Lady Gators to four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. As a senior in 1996–97, she was recognized as an All-American by the Associated Press, Kodak and the Basketball Times; she was also the winner of the Wade Trophy, recognizing the best women's basketball player in NCAA Division I.


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